US Patent Issued to Nutrition & Biosciences USA 4 on Aug. 5 for "Engineered glucosyltransferases" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,535, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nutrition & Biosciences USA 4 Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Engineered glucosyltransferases" was invented by Yougen Li (Pennington, N.J.), Mark S. Payne (Wilmington, Del.), Jared B. Parker (Elkton, Md.), Slavko Kralj (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Veli Alkan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Richard R. Bott (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Dicosimo (Chadds Ford, Pa.), Qiong Cheng (Wilmington, Del.), Ellen D. Semke (Newark, Del.) and Susan Marie Hennessey (Avondale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are glucosyltransferases with modified amino acid sequences. Such engineered enzymes exhibit improved alpha-g...